The Slave, the Spy, and the Chief: The Untold Voices of Lewis and Clark with Craig Fehrman

About this episode

What if the Lewis and Clark story you learned in school got almost everything wrong? On this episode of Books and Looks, Blaine DeSantis sits down with Craig Fehrman, author of the bestselling book This Vast Enterprise, to reexamine one of the greatest journeys in American history. Fehrman reveals that the expedition began before the Louisiana Purchase was even finalized, that the famous $15 million price tag hides a true cost of more than $400 million, and that the journey itself ran over $100,000, the equivalent of NASA's budget in its day. Fehrman's book tells the story as an ensemble, rotating between ten points of view. Listeners will meet York, the enslaved man whose skill and…